Meeting of OECD Health Ministers: Background Information

Essential Reading

• Issues for Discussion
• Issues for discussion at Health Ministers Round-Table (OECD Forum 2004)
• Towards High-Performing Health Systems - Final Report 
• Towards High-Performing Health Systems - Summary Report  
  (download a translation of the Summary Report in French, in German, in Italian, in Japanese, in Portuguese and in Spanish). 

Further Reading

• Measuring Up: Improving Health Systems Performance in OECD Countries
• Health at a Glance 2003
• Health Care Systems: Lessons from the Reform Experience

Equity of access

• Income-related inequality in the use of medical care in 21 OECD countries

Waiting Times

• Tackling Excessive Waiting Times for Elective Surgery: A comparison of Policies in Twelve OECD Countries and annexes
• Explaining Waiting Times Variations for Elective Surgery across OECD Countries

Private Health Insurance

• Private Health Insurance in Australia - A Case Study
• Private Health Insurance in Ireland - A Case Study
• The Slovak Health Insurance System and the Potential Role for Private Health Insurance: Policy Challenges
• Private Health Insurance in France
• Private Health Insurance in OECD Countries: The Benefits and Costs for Individuals and Health Systems (forthcoming Summer 2004)

New and Emerging Health-related Technologies

• Health Technologies and Decision Making (forthcoming).

Ageing-related diseases and long-term care

• A Disease-based Comparison of Health Systems - What is Best and at What Cost?
• Stroke Care in OECD Countries: A Comparison of Treatment, Costs and Outcomes in 17 Countries and Annexes
• OECD Study of Cross-National Differences in the Treatment, Costs and Outcomes of Ischaemic Heart Disease
• Dementia Care: A Comparative Analysis of Disease Management in 9 OECD Countries (forthcoming)

Poverty and Health

• Poverty and Health - DAC Guidelines and Reference Series
• Policy Brief: Poverty and Health in Developing Countries: Key Actions

Country Reviews

• The US Health System: An Assessment and Prospective Directions For Reform
• OECD Reviews of Health Care Systems:  Korea
• An Assessment of the Performance of the Japanese Health Care System
• Policy Brief: OECD Health at a Glance - How France Compares

For other information on health-related work at the OECD, please visit the following Web pages:

• Health
• OECD Health Project
• Ageing Societies
• Millennium Development Goals
• Health and Human Development